Hypernym

• IRONIAHISTRIONIC way of expressing something by playfully creating an appearance of claiming its opposite, typically assuming one's playfulness to be understood by the intended audience. The use of words to express something diametrically different from their meaning, or in a histrionically mediated sense. test
• HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
  • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
    • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

• Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 8.436